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By Marc Frank HAVANA, July 16 (Reuters) - Cuba said a North Korean cargo ship seized in Panama on Monday was loaded at one of its ports with 10,000 tons of sugar and 240 tons of "obsolete defensive weaponry," according to a statement released on Tuesday by the Cuban Foreign Ministry. Cuba said the weapons were being sent back to North Korea for repair and included two anti-aircraft batteries, nine disassembled rockets, and two MiG-21 aircraft, all Soviet-era military weaponry built in the middle of the last century.

LONDON — One man was found dead and five remain missing after a cargo ship with a Russian crew sank in gale-force winds overnight in the Irish Sea, Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency said Sunday. Two men clinging to life rafts were airlifted by a rescue helicopter co-piloted by Prince William, a Ministry of Defense spokesman said. The men were taken to hospital, and a search was conducted across a 300-square-mile area off north Wales before being abandoned because of darkness.

SEOUL (Reuters) - A Mongolian-flagged cargo ship has sunk off the southern coast of South Korea, with most of the 16 North Korean crew members on board missing, South Korean coast guard officials said on Friday. Two crew members were found dead and three were rescued, while a search was under way for the other 11 crew still missing, the officials said. The Grand Fortune 1 was sailing from the Chongjin region on North Korea's east coast for a Chinese port carrying iron ore, said one official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) - - An unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp Antares rocket blasted off from a seaside launch pad in Virginia on Sunday, sending a Cygnus cargo ship on its way to the International Space Station, a NASA Television broadcast showed. The 133-foot-tall (41-meter-tall) rocket lifted off at 12:52 p.m. EDT/1652 GMT from a commercially operated launch pad at NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. Perched on top of the rocket was a Cygnus spacecraft, built by Orbital Sciences in partnership with Italy's Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture of Thales SA and Finmeccanica SpA. The freighter was loaded with more than 3,660 pounds (1,660 kg)

(Updates with status of the search) By Eduardo Munoz NEWARK, N.J., June 27 (Reuters) - A cargo ship believed to be carrying stowaways was seized at a New Jersey port on Wednesday following stops in India and Egypt to pick up freight, but hours of initial searching found no sign of unauthorized passengers, U.S. authorities said. As of 8:30 p.m. EDT (0030 GMT), 18 hours into the search, 150 containers had been examined and no stowaways had yet been detected, but the special inspection was set to continue through the night, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Anthony Bucci.

* Captain and 14 crew members are American citizens * Three rifles found on board Ocean Atlas * Crew member says ship suspected of arms trafficking * Incident follows arrest of U.S. citizen last month By Paulo Prada CARACAS, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities have arrested the American captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship after finding three rifles on board, according to a crew member of the vessel and a U.S. embassy official. Local officials, the crew member said, suspect the vessel of arms trafficking and on Wednesday held crew members, under armed guard, at the rear of the ship while other officials interrogated the captain.

Russia's financial woes have forced a two-week delay in launching the next cargo ship to the Mir space station, according to the Russian news media. The ship, which will transport food, water and fuel, was to go up Oct. 15 but is now slated for liftoff at the end of October, said Mikhail Sinelshchikov of the Russian Space Agency's manned mission program. The Progress cargo ship is at the Baikonur space center launch site in neighboring Kazakstan, but the space agency has not been able to buy the Soyuz booster rocket needed to send it into orbit, Sinelshchikov told the ITAR-Tass news agency.

A Russian cargo ship laden with food, oxygen and other supplies for the International Space Station blasted off Friday from the Kazakh steppe. As the Progress M-48 lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, the head of the company that builds Russian spacecraft criticized the lack of U.S. participation. The station has had to rely on Russian crew capsules and cargo ships to ferry supplies since the Columbia disaster forced the grounding of the U.S. shuttle fleet.